NEW YORK – Tens of thousands of people gathered in Rockefeller Center on Tuesday night to watch the lighting of the country’s most famous Christmas tree, just days after a terror scare at a tree lighting in Oregon. Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped turn on the 30,000 energy-efficient lights dressing the Christmas tree following a show [...]
MORENCI, Mich. – The search for three young Michigan brothers darkened Tuesday as authorities warned the public to expect the worst and charged the children’s father with their kidnapping. Despite the somber news, a small army of volunteers spent a fourth day scouring corn fields, campgrounds and wooded areas near Morenci, a small community 75 [...]
LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson’s father refiled a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the doctor charged in his son’s death and added as a defendant a Las Vegas pharmacy that records show sold the physician a powerful anesthetic blamed for his death. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages against Dr. Conrad Murray, who has pleaded not [...]
MARINETTE, Wis. – A 15-year-old student who held about two dozen students and a teacher hostage for several hours in a classroom at a Wisconsin high school died Tuesday at a hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. Sophomore Samuel Hengel shot himself after police stormed a classroom at Marinette High School on Monday [...]
SEOUL (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally. Nuclear-armed Pyongyang’s revelations about its uranium enrichment, which gives it a second route to make a nuclear [...]